Rafnia.] LEGUMINOS (Harv.) 31 
Very similar to B. undulata; but here the edges of the leaf-lobes are more or less 
united or connate round the stem: the flowers are smaller, and the calyx-lobes 
shorter. 
X. RAFNIA. 
Calyx unequally 5—fid, the lowest segment narrowest. Corolla glab- 
rous ; vewillum roundish; carina incurved, either rostrate or obliquely 
truncate. Stamens 10, monadelphous. Ovary sessile or stipitate, many 
ovuled; stigma capitate. Zegwme lanceolate or linear, the upper suture 
sharp or somewhat winged. Hndl. Gen. 6459, and Pelecynthis, 6460. 
Benth. / in Lond. Journ. 2. p. 463. Vascoa, DC. Gdmannia, Thunb. 
Glabrous, and frequently glaucous shrubs or suffrutices, with simple, very entire,. 
alternate, exstipulate leaves and yellow flowers. Named in memory of C. G, Rafn, 
a Danish botanist. 
ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 
1. Vascoa.—Carina rostrate. Legume many-seeded. Leaves broadly amplexicaul, 
strongly netted with veins. (Sp. 1-3.) 
Leaves very obtuse, membranaceous : 
Calyx-teeth longer than the tube CoA ae. >> , ck) VO 
Calyx-teeth shorter than the tube ... ... ... ... ... (2) amplexicaulis. 
Leaves acute or mucronate, rigid od (3) perfoliata. MH 
2. Eu-Rafnia.—Carina rostrate. Legume many-seeded. Leaves never amplexicaul, S\y, Qa Ibe 
veinless, or with obsolete veins. (Sp. 4-15.) ~~ 
* Latifoliz : Leaves broad ; either ovate, obovate, elliptical, or ovato-lanceolate. 
+ Peduncles axillary, leafless: 9 
Leaves very broad, cuspidate-acuminate ... ... (4) ovata. 
Leaves acute or mucronate: 
Upper calyx-teeth broader than the lateral... (8) triflora. ¥ 
Upper calyx-teeth similar to the lateral ... (6) fastigiata. 
+t Peduncles axillary ; with a pair of leafy bracts 
under the flower 265. Uke vs (7) elliptica, 
+tt Peduncles in a terminal, leafless raceme... ... ... (8) Tacemosa. — 
** Angustifoliz : Leaves narrow; either linear-oblong, lanceclate or linear. 
ks Peduncles axillary, one-flowered, simple : 
Bracts minute, setaceous, close to the flower ... (9) lancea. et 
Bracts leafy, remote from the flower ....... ... (10) crassifolia, / 
++ Peduncles forked, bearing flowers in the fork, and at the end of each arm: 
Branches roundish. Legume sessile, broad at base (11) axillaris, 
Branches angular. Legume narrowed at base and stipitate : 
Upper and lateral calyx-lobes lanceolate-fal- 
cate, acute, aslong asthe tube ... ... (12) angulata. 
Upper calyx-lobes broader than the lateral ; : 4 
both acuminate and twice as long as the tube (13) humilis. 4 
Upper and lateral calyx-lobes dilated, obtuse (14) Ecklonis. 
Calyx-teeth not half as long as the tube and ? 
separated by wideinterspaces ... ... ... (£5) Thunbergii. 
8. Pelecynthis.—Carina somewhat fornicate, broadly and obliquely trwicate or 
emarginate. Legume many-seeded. eaves of sec. 2. (Sp. 16-18.) 
4 
Leaves narrow-oblong or lanceolate, scarcely veiny (16) opposita. 
Leaves ovate-elliptical or broadly-oblong, veiny a (17) affinis. 
Leaves broadly obovate, rhomboid oroblong ... .. (18) cuneifolia. ie 
4, Caminotropis.—Carina completely fornicate, its petals united to the extreme — 
point, obtuse or truncate. Legume on a long stipe, one or two sceded. (Sp. 19-22.) 
+ Leaves, at least the lower ones, broadly ovate or obovate: 
Erect, robust: leaves broad and rounded at base ... (19) dichotoma. 
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